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Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes (POMDPs) can model complex sequential decision-making problems under stochastic and uncertain environments. A main reason hindering their broad adoption in real-world applications is the lack…

A cognitive beamforming algorithm for colocated MIMO radars, based on Reinforcement Learning (RL) framework, is proposed. We analyse an RL-based optimization protocol that allows the MIMO radar, i.e. the \textit{agent}, to iteratively sense…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-11-07 Li Wang , Stefano Fortunati , Maria Sabrina Greco , Fulvio Gini

We present a data-efficient reinforcement learning algorithm resistant to observation noise. Our method extends the highly data-efficient PILCO algorithm (Deisenroth & Rasmussen, 2011) into partially observed Markov decision processes…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-02-09 Rowan McAllister , Carl Edward Rasmussen

Mobile jammers pose a critical threat to 5G networks, particularly in military communications. We propose an intelligent anti-jamming framework that integrates Multiple Signal Classification (MUSIC) for high-resolution Direction-of-Arrival…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Olivia Holguin , Rachel Donati , Seyed bagher Hashemi Natanzi , Bo Tang

A Markov Decision Process (MDP) is a popular model for reinforcement learning. However, its commonly used assumption of stationary dynamics and rewards is too stringent and fails to hold in adversarial, nonstationary, or multi-agent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-08-22 Tiancheng Yu , Suvrit Sra

An adversarial machine learning approach is introduced to launch jamming attacks on wireless communications and a defense strategy is presented. A cognitive transmitter uses a pre-trained classifier to predict the current channel status…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-12-14 Tugba Erpek , Yalin E. Sagduyu , Yi Shi

Deep Reinforcement Learning based solution for jamming communications using Frequency Hopping Spread Spectrum technology in a 16 channel radio environment is presented. Deep Q Network based transmitter continuously selects the next…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Andrii Grekhov , Volodymyr Kharchenko , Vasyl Kondratiuk

Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) has recently been used to perform efficient resource allocation in wireless communications. In this paper, the vulnerabilities of such DRL agents to adversarial attacks is studied. In particular, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-13 Feng Wang , M. Cenk Gursoy , Senem Velipasalar

This paper investigates the anti-jamming channel access problem in complex and unknown jamming environments, where the jammer could dynamically adjust its strategies to target different channels. Traditional channel hopping anti-jamming…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Jianshu Zhang , Xiaofu Wu , Junquan Hu

Malicious jamming launched by smart jammer, which attacks legitimate transmissions has been regarded as one of the critical security challenges in wireless communications. Thus, this paper exploits intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-24 Helin Yang , Zehui Xiong , Jun Zhao , Dusit Niyato , Qingqing Wu , Massimo Tornatore , Stefano Secci

The problem of quality of service (QoS) and jamming-aware communications is considered in an adversarial wireless network subject to external eavesdropping and jamming attacks. To ensure robust communication against jamming, an…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-10-15 Nof Abuzainab , Tugba Erpek , Kemal Davaslioglu , Yalin E. Sagduyu , Yi Shi , Sharon J. Mackey , Mitesh Patel , Frank Panettieri , Muhammad A. Qureshi , Volkan Isler , Aylin Yener

This work proposes a novel resource allocation strategy for anti-jamming in Cognitive Radio using Active Inference ($\textit{AIn}$), and a cognitive-UAV is employed as a case study. An Active Generalized Dynamic Bayesian Network…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-11 Ali Krayani , Atm S. Alam , Lucio Marcenaro , Arumugam Nallanathan , Carlo Regazzoni

Reinforcement learning (RL) approaches based on Markov Decision Processes (MDPs) are predominantly applied in the robot joint space, often relying on limited task-specific information and partial awareness of the 3D environment. In…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Bingkun Huang , Yuhe Gong , Zewen Yang , Tianyu Ren , Luis Figueredo

Modern radars often adopt multi-carrier waveform which has been widely discussed in the literature. However, with the development of civil communication, more and more spectrum resource has been occupied by communication networks. Thus,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-26 Zhao Shan , Lei Wang , Pengfei Liu , Tianyao Huang , Yimin Liu

Multi-antenna (MIMO) processing is a promising solution to the problem of jammer mitigation. Existing methods mitigate the jammer based on an estimate of its subspace (or receive statistics) acquired through a dedicated training phase. This…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-02-10 Gian Marti , Christoph Studer

This letter presents a fast reinforcement learning algorithm for anti-jamming communications which chooses previous action with probability $\tau$ and applies $\epsilon$-greedy with probability $(1-\tau)$. A dynamic threshold based on the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-14 Pei-Gen Ye , Yuan-Gen Wang , Jin Li , Liang Xiao

The performance of Non-orthogonal Multiple Access (NOMA) system dramatically decreases in the presence of inter-cell interference. This condition gets more challenging if a smart jammer is interacting in a network. In this paper, the NOMA…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-05 Sina Yousefzadeh Marandy , Mohammad Ali Amirabadi , Mohammad Hossein Kahaei , Seyed Mohammad Razavizadeh

In most real-world reinforcement learning applications, state information is only partially observable, which breaks the Markov decision process assumption and leads to inferior performance for algorithms that conflate observations with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-12 Hongming Zhang , Tongzheng Ren , Chenjun Xiao , Dale Schuurmans , Bo Dai

In this paper, we investigate the anti-jamming problem of a directional modulation (DM) system with the aid of intelligent reflecting surface (IRS). As an efficient tool to combat malicious jamming, receive beamforming (RBF) is usually…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-10-25 Hangjia He , Ting Su , Hongjun Wang , Yin Teng , Weiping Shi , Feng Shu , Jiangzhou Wang

In inverse reinforcement learning (IRL), a learning agent infers a reward function encoding the underlying task using demonstrations from experts. However, many existing IRL techniques make the often unrealistic assumption that the agent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-04 Franck Djeumou , Christian Ellis , Murat Cubuktepe , Craig Lennon , Ufuk Topcu